Abraham Lincoln outlawed business with the Confederate States during the Civil War.
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Queen Anne knighted Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
The Holy Roman Empire appointed a new supreme military commander, Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.
The last major battle of WWII took place.
A total of 662 Charlie Chaplin lookalikes gathered at the Chaplin Museum in Vevey, Switzerland.
